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02/06/2009

Plan on curing cancer? Gonna triumph over adversity to win multiple awards in your field? Have a start-up business idea that's going to take you from the unemployment line to the billionaire's club? Or do you want to eschew personal gain so that you can dedicate your life to feeding and clothing homeless youth?

Well don't even bother doing any of that if you're gay. For according to the increasingly unhinged words of rabid anti-gay activist Peter Labarbera, your sexual orientation has already ruined your chances of ever being seen as admirable.

This is what Pete has to say about newly appointed Chicago schools chief Ron Huberman:

Unlike, of course, a man who dedicates his entire existence to hurting people, encouraging harassment, going undercover to photograph fetish and BDSM events, and fighting for policies that keep a certain portion of the population seen as less-than-equal in the eyes of civil law. TOTAL role model, that guy.

But don't be too offended by this unbelievably myopic way of writing off your entire life as wasted, gays. After all, Pete is a man who thinks that discrimination is, by definition, "pro-family. We would hardly put him up there with Webster's in terms of accurately pinpointing a word or phrase's meaning.

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Heaven forbid we should have role models too. School could have been so much more pleasant.

Posted by: RainbowPhoenix | Feb 6, 2009 11:39:45 AM

Actually Peter's attempted denunciation of Huberman simply because of his orientation is somewhat a victory for us.

In the past, Peter and company would trot out all of those discredited and distorted statistics about "homosexuality being a dangerous lifestyle." I think blogs like this are doing a great job in neutralizing those lies.